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legislation/us/states/ri/2024/hb-7610.md

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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LAND SURVEYORS"
+description: "Grants a right of entry for professional land surveyors to enter upon or cross any lands, air space or water resources necessary to perform surveying services except public utility and/or wastewater treatment facilities upon prior notice."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
+legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 7610"
+citation: "Rhode Island HB 7610 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chippendale", "Cortvriend", "Edwards", "McGaw", "Nardone"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2024-02-15"
+last_action: "2024-06-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43b36a20-d3f8-4b06-9f40-b2d0bb6c8337"
+source_url: "https://status.rilegislature.gov/"
+source_hash: "4d0fa6baf253bf3602c29a18f0c2a1df41bde964cfbf9152b6cda3d10cc81299"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ri"]
+---
+
+# Rhode Island HB 7610 (2024) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS -- LAND SURVEYORS
+
+Grants a right of entry for professional land surveyors to enter upon or cross any lands, air space or water resources necessary to perform surveying services except public utility and/or wastewater treatment facilities upon prior notice.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **7610** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText/BillText24/HouseText24/H7610.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **67–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chippendale — primary (person)
+- Cortvriend — primary (person)
+- Edwards — primary (person)
+- McGaw — primary (person)
+- Nardone — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-02-15** 02/15/2024 Introduced, referred to House Corporations `introduction, referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-01** 03/01/2024 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/07/2024)
+- **2024-03-07** 03/07/2024 Committee recommended measure be held for further study `committee-failure`
+- **2024-05-24** 05/24/2024 Scheduled for consideration (05/29/2024)
+- **2024-05-29** 05/29/2024 Committee recommends passage `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2024-05-31** 05/31/2024 Placed on House Calendar (06/06/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-06** 06/06/2024 House read and passed `passage`
+- **2024-06-07** 06/07/2024 Placed on Senate Calendar (06/11/2024) `reading-3`
+- **2024-06-11** 06/11/2024 Senate passed in concurrence `passage`
+- **2024-06-12** 06/12/2024 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-06-17** 06/17/2024 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/43b36a20-d3f8-4b06-9f40-b2d0bb6c8337`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).
+